So if you want to turn to Matthew chapter one. that would help you in following along, this morning. Matthew 1, and we'll be looking at verses 18 through 25. Let me start with the question, what would you do?
What would you do if God came to you? And Asked you or called upon you to believe and to act upon something that had never before happened in the history of the world. Thousands of years of human history, this has never happened, but God's telling you it happened, and I want you to believe it and act upon it. And it's also something that not only has never happened, but it totally does not fit with your reasoning, anything that you would have arrived at with your own reasoning, thinking capacities.
it's also something that's just frankly, the reason it's never happened in human history is because it's not humanly possible, apart from the miraculous. And he's also calling upon you to believe, to embrace, and to act upon. Something that from the outset that many people are not going to believe and it's going to prove to be a stumbling block to them. Would you believe And would you act upon that belief?
That is exactly the opportunity. that Joseph is confronted with in Matthew chapter 1, verses 18 through 25. And we're gonna look at this section of Matthew 1 and observe what that opportunity looked like for him, the struggle that was involved in that, what God did to bring him to a right place. In that, and what Joseph did by way of responding to God to where he ended up in a really beautiful place by the end of Matthew chapter 1, verse 25, a place of belief and acting boldly and decisively upon this thing that God had announced to him....
